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Nawaz or Rawalpindi?
Imad Zafar Things are unfolding slowly and dramatically on the political horizon of Pakistan.There is nothing new, the same old mindset of “My Way or the Highway” is being adopted from the Rawalpindi...
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گویا مقتول ہی قاتل ٹھرا
انیلا معین سید ستائیس مارچ 2016 بروز اتوار کو لاہور شہر میں پیش آنے والے واقعے نے میرے بھی ہوش اڑا دیے۔ اس زندہ دل شہر کے باسیوں کو خون میں لت پت دیکھنا ایک بڑا کٹھن مرحلہ تھا۔ یوں تو دہشت گردی اور بم...
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Book Review; The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan
By Najeeb Kakar Book cover. Saadia Toor is an Associate Professor of Sociology at City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Her latest book The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War...
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Gul-e-Raana: Episodic Disappointments
Mahwish Badr I have been watching Gul-e-Raana, the Hum TV play. It had a lot of good ratings and I began watching with high hopes but the play really didn’t live up to a lot of hopes that I had had....
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Inherited Militancy
By Ahmad Karim Shahbaz Taseer the son of slain governor Punjab, Salman Taseer, was abducted by Usman Basra and his companions on August 26, 2011, from Gulberg area of Lahore. Taseer was later...
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Using Kitsch for Fame?
By Rukhshan Meer For those of you who are not familiar with word “kitsch”, lets bring to your knowledge that it is a German word, known to be first used in 1925. Urban dictionary states that it is as...
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میں پاکستان کا “مالک”کیا چاہتا ہوں
عماد ظفر پاکستانی فلم “مالک” وفاقی حکومت کی جانب سے پابندی کا شکار ہو جانے کے بعد آج کل میڈیا پر بحث کا باعث بنی ہوئی ہے۔ اس فلم کے ڈائریکٹر رائٹر اور ہیرو عاشر عظیم ہیں جنہوں نے لگ بھگ دو دہائیوں قبل...
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Zahra Haider, Sex Ed & It’s Explosive Debate
By Maida Sheikh Zahra Haider’s article on what she learnt on having sex in Pakistan was a small truth, but it doesn’t define the whole of Pakistan or Pakistanis. She doesn’t claim to define...
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Pangs of Conscience
By Abuzar Wp The duality of standards in modernized Pakistan can be seen in some walks of life. In my own perspective, every human is a hypocrite. The values that have been hurled at every individual...
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Societies’ survival impossible with shortcuts like torture & extra-judicial...
By Ayesha Siddiqa This article was originally posted on Ayesha Siddiqa’s blog. A MQM worker was killed in Rangers’ custody – a reminder of the old tradition of lack of accountability of law enforcement...
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Why Secularism
By Najeeb Kakar Pakistan has often been experienced the religious orthodoxy since its inception. It has engendered religious narratives among the people who recalls secularism as a non-Islamic...
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The article which was censored in Pakistan: Sex Talk for Muslim Women
Mona Eltahawy This article was originally published on The New York Times and it was removed by the printing partner of New York Times in Pakistan. After I gave a reading in Britain last year, a woman...
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Should I be proud that my country treats women like cattle?
By Syeda Sana Ahmad May 3rd, 2016 – ‘A 13 year old girl was gang raped and then set ablaze in Chiniot’, the Ary news website informs me the next day. I scroll down to see the comments but there are...
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How dare you identify yourself as Muhajir!
By Rafique Ali ‘How do you identify yourself’ is a question sometimes asked during a discourse. It can either be a political, literary and intellectual or a cause based conversation. There is...
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Domestic violence is an exaggeration
By Andaleeb Rizvi When I mentioned the recent article on Dawn.com ‘These women stayed in abusive marriages because Pakistan failed them’ and quoted HRCP for saying 90% women face some form of...
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Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
by Rukhshan Meer Aerial view of the exhibition. Albert Einstein said “Creativity is Contagious, pass it on”. Since there is a lack of official platforms to show case our youth’s creativity, we...
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MY RIGHT TO LIBERTY WAS RESTRICTED WITH MY DUPPATTA
By SJ There is a fine line between office and work. Offices are never easy and nor do they promise to be. In our male dominating society, it’s hard for women to breathe amongst sexual predators,...
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Is Pakistan Responsible for Destabilization of Afghanistan?
By Misbah Azam, Ph.D. By definition, sovereignty is the quality of having independent authority over a geographic area. It can be found in a power to rule and make laws that rests on a political fact...
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Men & Mice Conflict Provokes Intellect: An Analogical Reasoning
By Gulzar Ahmad The current remarkable let up in suicide bombings across the country as a result of ongoing military operation in the tribal belt of Waziristan has ‘overtly’ created an illusion that...
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The Crisis of Good Governance in Pakistan
By Najeeb Kakar Good governance is an indeterminate term used in the international development literature to describe how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage their resources. However,...
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